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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎18r] (40/244)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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THE
NINETEENTH
C ENTUET
No. CLXXXII—A pril 1892
HOW TO FEDERATE
A RE PL Y TO
In tlie October number of tMs Review I ventured with mucli hesita
tion to give my views on the question of Imperial Federation. Mine
"was not a Colonial plan, nor did I speak for Canada. Imperial Feder
ation, as I then showed, did not emanate from the colonies, but was
originated by a number of the leading public men of both the
political parties in this country in 1884. Having devoted thirty-
seven years of my life to securing to the best of my ability the
perpetuation for all time of British institutions in the northern half
of North America, and believing as I did that the greatness of the
British Empire depended upon the retention of her colonies, I re
sponded to the suggestion of Lord Salisbury that a scheme should be
propounded. I may be permitted to say in excuse for my temerity
that I had the honour to be one of the authors, a quarter of a century
ago, of the Federation of Canada, which has surpassed the most
sanguine expectations of its founders. I offered my suggestions with
diffidence, and declared my readiness to abandon them if anything
better could be devised. These proposals have been subjected to the
most extended criticism here and in Canada and Australia, but after
the most careful examination of all the objections I cannot find that
I have been favoured by my critics with any alternative plan.
It is satisfactory to me to know that a large portion of the
•criticism to which my former article was subjected was founded
upon a misapprehension of what I had written. I proposed that when
V ol . XXXI—N o . 182 0 0

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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

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1 volume (120 folios)
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

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